Port Laoise

Port Laoise or Portlaoise ( /pɔrtˈliːʃə/), historically also known as Maryborough from 1557 until 1929, is the county town (capital/administrative centre) of County Laois in the Midlands region of Ireland. The population in 2011 was 20,145.

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Famous quotes containing the word port:

    “Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
    It tips the guard’s cutlass and silvers this nook;
    But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day.
    A jewel-block they’ll make of me to-morrow,
    Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
    Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
    O, ‘tis me, not the sentence they’ll suspend.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)